AMP's A$11 billion bid to acquire rival Axa Asia Pacific may create New Zealand's largest fund manager.

The case of two Whangarei pensioners battling Blue Chip goes before the Court of Appeal this week.

A shortage of homes for sale has pushed Auckland's residential property values higher than a year earlier, QV figures show.

Independent financial planners get a chance to promote their services for the benefit of readers.

Investment returns from the Cullen Fund and ACC have rescued the Crown's bottom line in the first three months of the fiscal year.

Recoveries in the investment performance of the ACC and New Zealand Superannuation Fund portfolios have helped offset a dramatic fall in the tax take over the past three months, says Treasury.

Auckland property prices surged nearly 6 per cent in October, says real estate company Barfoot & Thompson.

A finance company that received investment advice from a Commerce Commission member is facing legal action over the investments it recommended.

Chairman of freshly recapitalised Pyne Gould Corporation Sam Maling is to step down shortly, as will three other directors.

Driving through Nairobi with blood pouring from a gunshot wound is not what Alan Mountfort visualised when he answered an ad to invest in an olive grove.

Briscoes Group, which owns Rebel Sport, Urban Loft and the Living and Giving chains, says sales are up and second half profits will be "well ahead" of last year.